It's Been 3 Days Since I've Finished My Latest Rewatch Of Yuri!!! On Ice And I'm Still Reeling With All

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Skating in Iizuka—A Yuri on Ice Pilgrimage

Over the weekend, I took a trip to Iizuka—not just for a bit of sightseeing, but for something much more exciting. As a huge fan of Yuri on Ice, I couldn’t pass up the chance to skate at the very rink featured in the anime! It was surreal stepping onto the ice, knowing this was the real-world inspiration for one of my favourite series. Naturally, I had to do a side-by-side comparison.

I took a screenshot from the anime and matched it with a photo I took myself—and the resemblance is uncanny! Seeing the similarities between the animated version and the real thing was amazing. It’s one thing to watch a show and appreciate the settings, but actually standing in the same spot where those scenes were based? It made me feel like I was stepping into the anime itself.

Interestingly, while the rink is in Iizuka, the castle shown in Yuri on Ice is actually Karatsu Castle in Saga. I visited Karatsu previously, so it was fascinating to realise that the anime had merged these two locations into one. It’s a reminder of how creatively anime blends reality with fiction, crafting a world that feels real while still taking artistic liberties.

Overall, it was such a fun experience—skating in a place with so much meaning to me, uncovering the real-world inspirations behind the anime, and geeking out over every little detail.

—Emmy

What on earth is this witchcraft from Yuzu. What on earth.

Today’s translation #914

Otomedia 2017/02, Otsuka Manabu's interview

Part 6.

-- Every episode earned a huge response from the fans, but still, it seemed that episode 10. was especially popular.

Otsuka: I think that Kubo-san and Director Yamamoto, just like Victor, always want to surprise their viewers. And they prepare those surprises one after another. If you show something too clearly, there most likely will be people, who won't really like it, so it's also a bit scary in a way, but I did think that it was so amazing, how they are able to just push on, without hesitation (laugh). I also think that it's precisely because of their bold approach, that this show reached to so many people. My impression was that episode 10. was really a culmination point of that. In any case, it was an episode that brought us a lot of reasons to get excited.

-- Very quickly, the fans are hoping to see a continuation - what are we going to see next?

Otsuka: I think that Kubo-san and Director Yamamoto want to continue this show, as long as they are able to, and there is a lot of things that they want to show much, much more of. If that's what they want, MAPPA and I plan to obediently follow them, as we have been doing so far (laugh).

This is crazy work

I saw sk8 ova the other day and no joke this is what happens

They Say Never Meet Your Heroes

They say never meet your heroes—because they might ruin the carefully curated pedestal you’ve put them on. Maybe they’ll shatter your illusions with a single offhand comment. Or, maybe—just maybe—they’ll offer you something so bafflingly tone-deaf that you’ll find yourself questioning every life choice that brought you to this moment. And maybe they’ll turn out to be alarmingly human, with quirks and flaws that make them real in ways you weren’t ready for. But then again, heroes have a funny way of surprising you, even when you think you’ve got them figured out. Whether that’s a good thing… well, that’s another story entirely.

Can we have a Yuri on Ice resurgence please it would be so fun you guys

“I feel so much but yet so little..”

I love mob ‼️‼️

Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

They Say Never Meet Your Heroes

Chapter 5

Your Self-Centered Idol Might Give You The Urge Of Meeting Your Villain Instead

They say “Never meet your heroes,” and boy, they were they right. So Yuuri decides to meet his villain—his own anxiety—hoping he’s wrong about that, too. Between Viktor’s dazzled breakdown and Yuuri’s quiet resolve to face him again, both find themselves grappling with the illusions they once held. Viktor learns that fascination can be more powerful than anger, while Yuuri discovers that even a villain can sometimes be tamed.

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